Talk:Tollhouse

Template:Globalize?

"The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject." .. Unless.. are "toll houses" as described in this article, specific to UK only? If this article's scope is UK-only perhaps it needs to be renamed to something like Toll houses in the United Kingdom? (I'm from Canada btw, and we have this sort of thing here too) -- œ^™ 04:53, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

You're right that it's UK-specific. Is the terminology different in other Anglophone regions, or has the article simply not yet acquired material from a cross-cultural perspective. If the latter, you seem like a good person to start rectifying it! It seems pointless renaming it unless there is sufficient material overall to categorise by country.Sjwells53 (talk) 11:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

I have some small pieces of information about Toll Houses in Scotland. Many were no longer required due to railways taking precedence. Also they had to be six miles apart (which I think is different from in England). There is a minor reference to this on the page about 'Clola'? Would you mind if I add these in? Sagaciousphil (talk) 05:50, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Outside of England?

Though this is obviously a phenomenon strongly associated with England, they surely exist elsewhere (I know "toll house" appears in a lot of place names in Massachusetts, though I don't know if I've ever seen a surviving example of one). Anyone with sufficient expertise care to chime in? 71.234.198.222 (talk) 02:43, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Once again, if there is useful material from other countries, can someone start to add it. Or was the term "toll house" superseded by something else in USA and Canada, perhaps allowing for a rename of the article to be more inclusive. Obviously there are turnpike booths on US roads even today, but they aren't really the same thing. The vast majority of the toll houses in the UK are 18th century structures associated with canals, or occasionally old roads. In almost every case, they are now redundant and used for something else. Toll houses on roads were generally sidelined as newly incorporated councils challenged private monopolies and took roads into public ownership in Victorian times. Financing of canals is now on a different basis. I suspect something similar must have happened in North America.Sjwells53 (talk) 09:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

There are a number of historic toll houses in the US, in the traditional sense of the term. Also note that the main office or manager's office attached to modern toll plazas are also called a "toll house" even though no one lives there. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

globalise or localise?

localised in title and if there are examples for elsewhere, maybe separate articles? JarrahTree 00:45, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

I've very slightly globalised this. A generic lead and very limited references to the USA, but no doubt there are other parts of the world worth mentioning. Lithopsian (talk) 15:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 25 September 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved to Tollhouse. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Toll houses of the United Kingdom → Toll house – This article was originally titled Toll house but described almost exclusively toll houses in the UK. This caused some slight confusion as no global "toll house" article was forthcoming so that title simply redirected here and the problem was hardly solved. Then there is toll house (disambiguation) with a primary topic redirecting here. So, I threw in a few mentions of toll houses outside the UK, more are probably needed if indeed there are other relevant locations (Canada?) that can be referenced, but the current title no longer seems appropriate. Hence, rename it? See also tollhouse, currently a redirect here, previously a redirect to the dab page. This term is used extensively within the article, although it doesn't appear to me to be the most common real-world or academic usage. Lithopsian (talk) 18:27, 25 September 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. Primefac (talk) 19:55, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

• Support alternate move to Tollhouse which is the proper spelling according to Wiktionary._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 16:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
• Support move to Tollhouse.---Ehrenkater (talk) 20:01, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
• Support Tollhouse Merriam Webster and Cambridge dictionary both have it as one word. Regarding there being some move - I don't see why it was moved in the first place. Clear primary topic over the cookies. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:46, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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Cookies!?

Hi, I came here looking for information about the style of cookie (chocolate chunk) known as Toll House, had to dig harder to find Toll House Inn. At the risk of making this article too American, could we add a link to the famous inn, source of the now famous cookies? TAPwiki (talk) 01:37, 19 April 2022 (UTC)